how do u find ideas for your drawings?? theyre so good
ahhh thank you!!! honestly I never really know how to answer this q because honestly i just kinda daydream a lotđ¤§
I think when I was younger I used to rely very heavily on finding the "perfect reference" before I even started drawing. obviously this kind of just ended up with me scrolling pinterest for hours instead of actually making anything. I think having at least a vague idea/inspiration for what i want to draw before i sit down in front of the canvas has helped me w how i approach drawing!
It's kind of become a habit for me to think about what/how i want to draw Basically Every Waking Minute. whenever im doing something that doesnt require full attention (like going on a walk, working out, doing chores, on the bus, eating, showering, falling asleep etc. back when i had a job at a horse stable i'd spend hours just doing tedious manual jobs while fully daydreaming about drawing my favourite characters - this i cannot totally reccommend as i did accidentally forget to close a gate once and a horse escaped.) instead of putting on a youtube video or a podcast or scrolling twitter or whatever i'll just let myself be bored and think about what i want to draw. (i will add a disclaimer that this works best if youre really obsessed with a show or a character because i naturally find myself thinking about her anyway its not something i have to make myself do.) I do also personally find it easier to come up with drawing ideas while i'm listening to music so i have my norah/upp playlists downloaded so i can listen to them w my eyes closed on the bus LOL
HOW EVER this has made me a lot worse at being in like. sponge mode. (?) im really bad with watching new things and absorbing stuff from them. and u rly do need to do this . dont be like me. look for inspiration everywhere u go every movie book game tv show podcast song whatever . EVEN REALLY TEWRRIBLE BAD STUFF. like for example i recently went to see disclosure day with my dad and it genuinely sucked ass it was the worst movie ive seen all year but there was one shot where a character is walking through snow and because i was (and always am) actively looking for ideas n inspiration for my norah drawings i ended up already having that composition in mind when i started this piece later!
this one counts less because we were actively playing just to get screenshots to draw our favourite characters over, but my friends huddy and lulu were playing roblox backrooms and i thought the water distorting our roblox faces made for a rly fun composition so i made huddy pose up with me so i could use it as a reference later for this piece c:
sooooooo yeah! i think my biggest philosophy is don't start thinking about what to draw when you're already sitting there with the canvas open in front of you, try come up with ideas and things that would be fun to illustrate at literally any other time! and draw inspiration from everthing u see! Not even just other art or visual mediums, like literally anything u see and interact with!
It also forces you have to think about it for longer if you're physically away from your drawing stuff and HAVE to let it ruminate in your mind for a bit. I also like to do this for pieces i've already started but have hit a roadblock with and i kind of treat it like a problem to solve in my mind first before i do it on the page. for whatever reason i get better at drawing by Not drawing and being as far away from my drawing as possible LOL
ALSO even if you dont have a camera on you trying to figure out what would make a composition work in your mind while youre just out in the world is rly fun. i dont own a camera and my phone's quality is poop from a butt but i like thinking about how i could frame something or have an interesting composition and that translates into being able to come up with art compisition in my mind a lil bit easier. also looking at photos or art and trying to deconstruct the composition or colours or framing backwards. i follow a lot of photoprahy blogs on here. i dont mind doing actual reading or studying art but i think its more fun in practice like this even if its less efficient #yea
i also really like to read and i like to try figure out how i would visualize/communicate the same scene in an illustration its fun. hm i think this si why i like UPP so much.... or find it so easy to make fanart for it, since its mostly an audio medium with a few little visual hints (like the props but also the physical acting n expressions and the lighting) that are an easy base/guideline for me to come up with full drawings of the scenes. i also have thought about the setting of UPP a lot and have collected a lottttttttttt of visual references LOL so that definitely helps too.
Uhmmm yeah i think that is mostly everything i can think of thats not just the basic "go study composition and watch every movie" which i also recommend but i assume probably youve heard those before.
I'm sure this is totally new information to you guys but i tend to get very very passionate about the things that i enjoy and i can get very obsessive about characters shows whatever and that's why/how i draw so much and come up with so many ideas...im just always thinking about them and im always looking for them in everthing i watch/read/see/listen to which lends itself well for having a lot of inspiration LMAO OKAY wall of text over i hope this helps in any way at allll!!
